User:The Thadman/About me

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I'm currently working on catching up with my correspondence. Please be patient if you leave me a message. :-)
אמר Steve Caruso (desk/AMA) 01:45, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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On this page, allow me to share some of my interests and musings on Wikipedia. Some of these are rather eccentric, but most are rather benign, I promise. :-) אמר Steve Caruso (desk/poll)
 

Personality & Lifestyle:

ENFJ
According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator this user is an
ENFJ (44 12 25 1)
According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-9.25) and
Social Libertarian (-5.69)
This user is a committed flexitarian.


Education:

BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Informatics.


Beliefs & Practices:

God This user believes in God.
This user is a Primitive Yahwist.
This user is interested in religion.
This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.
This user is interested in religion as an anthropological and historical phenomenon.

Languages:

en This user is a native speaker of English.
fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.
arc-3 This user is able to contribute in one or more Aramaic languages at an advanced level.
ipa-3 This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.
zh-1 該用戶能以基本中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本中文进行交流。
he-1 משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה בסיסית של עברית.
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Technology:

This user runs Mac OS X.
This user contributes using a wireless connection.
Firefox This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
c-2 This user is an intermediate C programmer.
c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
java-3 This user is an advanced Java programmer.
js-3 This user is an advanced JavaScript coder.
css-3 This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.
html-4 This user is an HTML expert.
xml-4 This user is an expert XML coder.
xhtml-4 This user is an expert XHTML user.
php This user is a fluent PHP user.
mysql This user uses MySQL queries to locate car keys.

[edit] Some of my interests

[edit] Current musings on Wikipedia

[edit] Wikipedia groups

[edit] Userboxes

[edit] Wikipedia tools

[edit] Religion

  • Names and titles of Jesus - More general cleanup and other stuff.
  • Son of man - Compling an extensive list of examples on how this phrase is used in the ancient world.
  • Aramaic of Jesus - Keeping things scholarly.
  • Aramaic Primacy - I'm going to be putting a lot more into this article once AramaicNT.org is updated again.
  • Yahwism - An important family of religions.

[edit] Role-playing and related stuff

[edit] Past work

  • Jesus - General cleanup, worked on rewriting information on Jesus' personal name.

[edit] About my theology

[edit] Where I've been

The study of Religion is something that is very near and dear to me. I've gone through quite a path in life, from:

  1. Episcopalianism
  2. Non-Denominationalism
  3. G12 Vision (Due to my experiences with G-12 I personally believe it to be a dangerous high-pressure group.)
  4. Messianic Christianity
  5. Karaite Judaism
  6. Mosaic Yahwism
  7. Pre-Mosaic or Primitive Yahwist

I currently attend a Quaker Meeting Hall in New Brunswick.

[edit] Two Theo-philosophical Principles

In my personal beliefs as well as any personal philosophy I adhere to I employ a simple set of but two guidelines:

  1. Honesty - One must be honest with oneself about any personally held belief.
  2. Consistency - One's beliefs must be consistent, and one must be consistent with one's beliefs.

As such my personal beliefs are always a work in progress, and as I learn more they change. Even as they change, I always hold to my convictions.

[edit] "Steve-isms"

Ever have a list of things you come up with on the fly that you just have to write down? This section is dedicated to them. I'll be adding onto it as I stumble upon more in life.

[edit] On dealing with other people

  • "In order to be accommodated, you must be accommodating; however, always hold to your convictions."
  • "Never try to be 'tolerant.' Strive to respectfully disagree. 'Tolerance' originally referred to the quantity of poison one can bear in their body before they die."
  • "99% of life's problems are due to people not communicating with one another."
  • "I am a firm believer of 'keep wackyness in the workplace.'"

[edit] Whacky, random, and misc.

  • "That's about as fun as licking the asphalt at 60 miles an hour."
  • "How can someone say, 'God didn't intend for man to masturbate'? God didn't intend for the Tyrannosaurus Rex to masturbate."
  • "I don't want to be a bad sport; however, seeing that you've outsported me in this duel, it seems that overall you are the better sport, making me, by default, the worse... I just don't want to be an ass. Good match!"
  • "Well, I was going to ask him first, but getting his attention is akin to successfully grappling with a well-greased lemming."
  • "It wouldn't kill you to say a kind word every once and a while instead of letting us listen to you complain, complain, complain... and if it did, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place."
  • "Sometimes too much is not enough."

[edit] Word Smashes

I have the odd tendency to try and say two things at once, not making up my mind until after I've spoken. The result is a rather odd hash of syllables that sort of makes sense, and I usually forget them quickly. I'll try my best to record them when they pop up, so here are some of the funnier ones:

"No farm!" == "No harm!" + "No foul!"
"Shugginer" == "Sugar" + "Sweetner"
"Whacked" == "Whacky" + "Wicked"

 

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